The Al-Hayah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has on Wednesday announced that it lost at least 1,900 Herdsmen in separate attacks carried out by militants of terror group, Boko Haram, within four years in Borno state.

The announcement comes on a day investigations by Premium Times revealed that the Fulani Herdsmen also killed about 1, 269 persons in Benue state.

The Chairman of the Association, Alhaji Ibrahim Mafa, had totaled the numbers of cows and rams (including goats and sheep) lost by the members of the association to insurgency as 169, 000 and 63,000 respectively.